As you see, we're looking at a 200-page book with about 60 recommendations, but in a nutshell, the key finding was this. I think it's an important distinction to make. In no way do immigrant and refugee communities come here with their imported conflict. As a matter of fact, one of the key areas that we concentrate on at Mosaic is to provide platforms for communities that are in conflict with each other here in Canada, mostly diaspora communities.
We present platforms and encourage platforms whereby they can engage in civil dialogue. We brought together Jews and Muslims, we brought together Armenians and Turks, and Greeks and Cypriots, and Chinese and Tibetans to speak, to engage each other—mostly young people.
Here's one thing that I can tell you. When they are together, yes, they speak about their trauma. They speak about what it was like to come to this country after being involved in such traumatic situations in their own country. But their conflict and anger and angst is not what they concentrate on. They concentrate on trying to deal with those feelings of trauma, and they do it within a Canadian context. They speak civilly to each other. They speak peacefully to each other, even though they are at loggerheads.
What is the lesson that we learn from this? We learn that if you can actually bring people to the table who are in conflict, who have had these historical conflicts—and the chair, I think, can testify to this as well, because he and I worked very closely in bringing Jews and Ukrainians together and have been very successful in doing so. It sometimes takes a generation or two. Are we going to lose some along the way? We are. Sadly, we are. Does that mean we just throw out the baby with the bathwater? Of course it doesn't.
I think that we have to look forward. I think we should be proud of who we are as Canadians, and if from time to time we have to lay down the law—literally lay down the law—then that's what we do.
Our next research, by the way, is on this very issue of perceptions and realities in relation to radicalization in Canadian mosques. I'm not doing the research, but my view is that we may find that there is more myth than reality when it comes to the question of whether or not there is actual radicalization going on in the mosques.
But again, we are in the nascent stages of putting this together, and I hope that in the not too distant future we can present our findings on it as well.
Thank you.